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jaysh1017 wrote:

Anyone else here that's constantly stressing about saving money for when they're on maternity leave? I can't tell you how many times I've recalculated approximately what I will need and budgeted.. then re-budgeted. Then there's the fear of when I will have to officially stop working.

Yes! Left behind a job where I had over 90 days of leave built up to come be w my now ex/bd, so I have only 9 days of leave accumulated. They were considering bedrest or hospitalization last week, and I almost had a small heart attack. But I will survive. And dad is off playing w other women so genuinely on my own. Have some savings built up in case, but it's thin...

I can't count the many times I counted and recalculated my maternity leave, how much I was going to get paid, how I was going to pay each bill, etc. Thankfully the majority of my leave was paid in full. I was off of work for 8 months and I probably had a total of 40 hours of unpaid leave. I had to work that very strategically though in order to be able to take off that long. I took quite a bit of LWOP during my pregnancy. The way I looked at it was that it was easier to have 8 hours of no pay here and there than have an entire 80 hours LWOP. So it worked out. If you have the option of taking unpaid time off during your pregnancy to save it for when you go on maternity leave, I suggest you do that.

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